How to Use ten in a Sentence

ten

noun
  • Starshot aims to launch up to tens of thousands of StarChips per year.
    — Charles Q. Choi, Scientific American, 10 May 2018
  • Some videos have even climbed into the tens of millions of views.
    — Alex Abad-Santos, Vox, 29 July 2019
  • Then the Dutch brought in tens of thousands of people from China to till the land.
    — Ian Buruma, The New Yorker, 24 June 2024
  • The result was a world war that lasted four years and led to the loss of tens of millions of lives.
    — Christine Adams / Made By History, TIME, 17 July 2024
  • No one under the age of ten appears to have died from the disease.
    — Krista Langlois, Outside Online, 19 Mar. 2020
  • The war has raged for more than three years and cost the lives of tens of thousands of people on both sides.
    — Michael Dorgan, FOXNews.com, 19 Apr. 2025
  • Each of these programs would cost in the tens of billions of dollars.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 30 Jan. 2019
  • The climate has been changing for tens of thousands of years.
    — Michael Wilner, sun-sentinel.com, 10 July 2019
  • The state tried again in the 1970s, putting money in a parks bond to fund the purchase of tens of thousands of acres in the Sutter Buttes.
    — Jessica Garrison, Los Angeles Times, 20 May 2024
  • There are tens of millions of people watching the show, and loving the show.
    — Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Oct. 2024
  • Thousands — sometimes tens of thousands — tune in to the cam, which has been in place since 2015.
    — Amy Hubbard, Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2025
  • Seals and sea lions have been hit hard, with tens of thousands killed.
    — Sam Ogozalek, Orlando Sentinel, 23 June 2024
  • Those honored here are just a handful of the tens of thousands who've lost their lives.
    — Sandra Gonzalez, CNN, 24 Apr. 2020
  • The losses were sometimes in the tens of thousands of dollars, the release said.
    — Evan Frank, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 29 Aug. 2019
  • During the day, the site handles tens of thousands of requests.
    — Matt Butcher, Forbes, 26 Dec. 2024
  • In a matter of weeks, tens of thousands of tech workers lost their jobs.
    — Boone Ashworth, WIRED, 24 Feb. 2024
  • The camp, the second largest in the world, had sprung up in the summer of 2016 as tens of thousands of refugees fled the civil war in South Sudan.
    — Nina Strochlic, National Geographic, 20 June 2019
  • In the years that followed, tens of thousands were killed in both cities by the radiation from the blast.
    — Christian Edwards, CNN, 11 Oct. 2024
  • People come in the tens of thousands and sometimes the hundreds of thousand.
    — Adam Rasgon, New York Times, 15 May 2020
  • In a world of tens, Millie Bobby Brown is an Eleven—and now her salary reflects that.
    — Kayleigh Roberts, Harper's BAZAAR, 1 Apr. 2018
  • This is dreadful news for the tens of thousands of high school athletes who tear their ACL each year.
    — Luis Fernando Llosa, USA TODAY, 23 Mar. 2020
  • That number is now in the tens of thousands and is climbing every day.
    — Tom Duszynski, The Conversation, 7 Apr. 2020
  • Though the closure will affect tens of thousands of jobs, few are opposed to it.
    — Julie Watson and Lisa Baumann, ajc, 7 Apr. 2023
  • Six hundred neurons is a modest start compared with the tens of millions in the brain of a mouse.
    — Monique Brouillette, WIRED, 8 Apr. 2018
  • The Birkin, a bag made by Hermès, can retail for tens of thousands of dollars.
    — Emily Witt, The New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2020
  • Now, tens of thousands of Mets fans are art collectors too, thanks to the giveaways.
    — Harrison Jacobs, ARTnews.com, 4 Sep. 2024
  • The mob swelled to the tens of thousands and began howling at her on social media.
    — John Kass, chicagotribune.com, 4 May 2018
  • But more is needed to make this easier for the tens of thousands who drive 101 each day.
    — Gary Richards, The Mercury News, 29 July 2019
  • This wireless bra comes with tens of thousands of perfect grades from shoppers and is half-off today, even without a Prime membership.
    — Clint Davis, People.com, 11 July 2025
  • In the coming weeks, several Wayne County libraries are slated to receive settlement funds to compensate for losing tens of thousands of dollars over the last decade.
    — Nushrat Rahman, Freep.com, 10 July 2025

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